When asked whether this smartphone duo would make it to the UK or US, Barra replied: “It’s probably gonna be a few years before we reach these tier one markets.”

“Markets in the US and Europe are insanely competitive, and I think we’re not quite at the level where we feel like we’re ready to part of what we’re doing in those markets.”

He continued: “We think that our valued proposition of building very high specification products and selling them almost at cost has a much higher economic and social impact in the developing markets.”